Soap cake with figured core



May 11, 1954 5 sw T 2,677,913

SOAP CAKE WITH FIGURED CORE Filed Oct. 2, 1950 IN V EN TOR. .S'OPH/A S'M/AE TZ ATTORNEY Patented May 11, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SOAP CAKE WITH FIGURED CORE Sophia 'Swartz, New York, N. Y.

Application October 2, 1950, Serial No. 188,033

This invention relates to devices such as childrens toys combined with material adapted to be put to additional useful purpose by carrying detergent material, such as soap on the outer surface.

The invention may be put to a more prosaic use such as laundry work, when the soap is carried by a foundation material such as a doll.

The foundation which carries the soap may preferably be a figure free from sharp corners or edges, so that it cannot harm a child, or may be of elastic rubber. 4

The soap may be white, as castile soap, or colored. It is found that variegated colors on the form referred to below add a fancy element which attracts and holds the attention of a child, and is especially useful in holding the attention of a child while bathing it and floating around it in a bath.

Since the figure or shape is hollow it provides buoyancy to cause a normally non-floating soap to float, so that it floats in the bath and may float higher than ordinary so-called floating soap.

The outer coating of soap on the toy encourages the use of the soap with an abundant lather because the child watches the layer of soap gradually wear away and expose the underlying toy.

Moreover, the child will be satisfied when the toy is fully exposed and belongs to the child as a permanent plaything.

Moreover, the invention provides other advantages over ordinary soap or detergents.

The core or foundation may be made of any of a wide variety ofmaterials, so that instead of floatingfimost susiuergar it may float high enough to be conspicuous among the froth or suds and easy to seize.

Standard weights of soap cakes in the retail market seem to be four ounces, eight ounces, and some twelve ounces.

Four or eight ounces of soap carried in a fairly uniform layer on a core provides, as the soap wears away in use, a much larger and more convenient cake to grasp, and the cake, with its core, floats higher and higher, instead of becoming too small to handle conveniently.

Moreover. instead of wearing away to an easily fractured trivial cake, the core may be so shaped as to provide a wide even, though thin, layer, easy to manipulate and rub on clothes in the usual manner until used up to the very last layer.

1 Claim. (01. 45-28) This core support for the last drop avoids mon, whether in laundry work or when it is desired to rub soap onto a washcloth. Moreover the core may be retrieved, so to speak, by providing it in the form of the doll mentioned above.

White soap has usually been used for bathing children. Th present invention provides a form of soap which may be so shaped as to be attractive, and, moreover, the soap may be attractively or fantastically colored as blue, pink, variegated, on the surface or in layers which run to the core or around the core, or may be painted on the outside in colors although that washes away at first use.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing:

The soap cake 38 with doll core 31, shows a protruding head 39 and includes protruding feet 40 adapted to rest on a base 4| and keep the cake 38 dry, and is especially useful for the latter reason.

Having thus described one form of th invention in some'detail, what is claimed is:

A cake of non-floating soap with a figured doll core of suflicient buoyancy to make the combination float in water, said doll core having its torso completely embedded in the soap with protruding head and having protruding feet constructed to support the soap and toy in an upright position when rested thereon and thereby avoiding sliming in the drying.

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